By 2007, Mexican drug cartels controlled 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. [36][37] Arrests of key cartel leaders, particularly in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, have led to increasing drug violence as cartels fight for control of the trafficking routes into the United States. [38][39][40]

Aug 5, 2024 · Mexican authorities have been waging a deadly battle against drug cartels for nearly two decades, but with limited success. Thousands of Mexicans—including politicians, students, and...

Sep 2, 2013 · According to figures released on January 11 by the Mexican government, 12,903 people were killed in drug-related violence in the first nine months of 2011. Mexican Federal Police stand guard...

Oct 24, 2019 · Mexico's brutal drug war claims thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle it out for territory and influence.

4 days ago · The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and ...

Because of the South Florida Drug Task Force's successful crackdown on drugs, traffickers turn to Mexican marijuana smugglers to move cocaine across the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexican border. By the mid-1980s it becomes the major transportation route for cocaine into the U.S.

The timeline of some of the most relevant events in the Mexican drug war is set out below. Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring for three decades, the Mexican government held a generally passive stance regarding …

Oct 9, 2024 · Mexico faces a crisis of kidnappings, disappearances, and other criminal violence that has left over thirty-thousand people dead each year since 2018. Gangs and drug cartels largely perpetrate...

3 days ago · In late September 2024, civil war erupted in the home of one of Mexico’s largest cartels––the Sinaloa cartel––after the abduction of two key leaders, Joaquín. ... The most poignant example of such is the instance of splintering in the Zeta cartel following stricter anti-drug laws from former Mexican President Felipe Calderón ...

The explosion of the drug war in Mexico after the Mérida initiative exacerbated the gang-related violence in the other Central American countries. Of 178 suspected drug flights to and from South America in 2007, 132 were coming and going from the Caribbean.